Sentences with phrase «of police riot»

Theresa May moved to overhaul the system of police riot training today, threatening another fractious bout of bickering with the Met.

NARPO believe that if there is one lesson to be learnt in respect of policing these riots it is that strong or «robust» policing is only possible in situations like these if there are sufficient police officers to police that way.

Not exact matches

In August, riots broke out in the city after the fatal police shooting of 23 - year - old Sylville Smith.

CAMBODIA: Riot police watched carefully as more than 1,000 garment workers defied a government ban on marching to deliver a petition to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, demanding a higher minimum wage and more freedom of assembly.

Just as the capital Kuala Lumpur settles down following a fraught rally last week, at which riot police turned water cannons on supporters of the PM, top U.S. media outlets, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times (NYT), have reported yet more scandalous allegations about the country's sovereign wealth fund.

Protestors clashed with riot police as they tried to break through barricades in the Chinatown neighborhood, sparking fears of escalating ethnic tension.

The verdict comes about three years after rioting broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson when an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

A key event that sparked the idea began in August of 1965, after the Watts riots, a series of clashes between police and African - Americans in the L.A. neighborhood, which left 34 dead, 1,000 injured, and $ 40 million worth of property damaged.

The event was a breaking point in the community's resentment of L.A. police chief William Parker «and what they considered his double standard toward [African Americans] and whites,» according to LIFE magazine's editorial prefacing its Aug. 27, 1965, cover story on the riots.

Recall that in the wake of the London riots of early August, Research In Motion faced pressure both to assist British police in their investigations and to resist doing so.

She was sworn in as attorney general in April 2015 amid riots in Baltimore over the death of a black man in police custody.

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They come amid growing scrutiny of blunders Facebook has made in policing content around the globe — from riots and lynchings sparked by the spread of hate speech and misinformation in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, to inflammatory posts attacking religions and races — even after U.S. users flagged them.

LESBOS, Greece (AP)-- Greek riot police fired tear gas Thursday at angry protesters on the island of Lesbos who tried to topple a police bus during a demonstration against a European Union migration policy.

By 7 p.m., as dusk drew near, the coffin was lowered into the ground, but when the militiamen began to cover the grave, riot police burst through the gates, firing salvos of tear gas.

Along the way they were blocked by government riot police forces known as the Berkut, armed with plexiglass riot shields, helmets, and billy clubs, under the command of a general who was an ethnic Russian.

To show Jewish culpability in the riots, the paper even ran a picture — laughable even at the time — of a Chasidic man brandishing an open umbrella before a police officer in riot gear.

While we were deliberating on how to head off a bloody race riot a group of youngsters burst in on us and announced: «The State Police are shooting our people.»

By the end, riot police had to subdue parts of the crowd.

First, the viral video of police brutality during the student riots following the Terps beating Duke where the video provided evidence contradicting police accounts and resulted in (wrist - slap) suspensions of some the officers involved.

He immediately stopped the police use of gas masks, heavy riot armor, and SWAT trucks with sniper posts, according to The Washington Post.

If there was a riot at a football game, the police beat the worst - dressed of the men.

But to remedy the situation the commission recommends measures looking to centralized government control (which would only invite more federal interference and also infringe on the citizens» liberties); for example, development, on the federal level, of a plan for coping with disorder, and the creation of a special police force for suppressing riots.

And he must have felt just as elated when he saw masses of people stream out of homes and houses of worship onto the streets and bridges of Cairo, chanting «Peacefully, peacefully» as they faced riot police and tear gas on their way to Tahrir Square.

Ferguson went into a series of riots in protest of how white police officers treat black men in their city.

He told the mayor and police commissioner that what was needed was «an honest soul - searching analysis and evaluation of the environmental causes which have spawned the riots.»

But it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if, instead of rioting, the people went to the local police stations and lay down on the steps, the footpath, along the road, and refused to leave until they got a predetermined outcome (eg a review of the evidence, apologies etc, or a form of forgiveness and grace as Jeremy has suggested here).

Outside, people kneeled in prayer in front of the heavily armed riot police.

Barros has had «to sneak out of back exits, call on riot police to shepherd him from the city's cathedral and coordinate movements with bodyguards and police canine units.»

Last Oct. 15, after attending the UCLA basketball team's Midnight Madness, Ogden and two teammates were on their way home when they passed a large party and saw a group of police officers in riot gear preparing to break up the festivities.

The Fan Village is located on a promenade between two gated entryways, just to the left of the where Carbinieri, Italy's military police, are setting up in riot gear of their own.

Apparently, the riot police used a ton of pepper spray and was shooting bean bags at kids to quell their rebellion.

Galatasaray fans, whom had earlier caused disturbances in the local area before kick - off, threw several flares onto the pitch towards the end of the first half, when they were 2 - 0 down, which caused Italian referee Gianluca Rocchi to halt the game, with goalkeeper Fernando Muslera and captain Wesley Sneijder among those helping to restore order as riot police moved around the perimeter.

The amount of riot style police was incredible but probably needed.

Instead, riot police lined up on the touchline in front of the main section of Croatian fans in the Stade de Bordeaux.

Twenty - four hours after a 1 - 0 win at Lyon on May 12 gave PSG their first title since 1994, supporters clashed with riot police at Paris» Place du Trocadéro (scene of Zlatan Ibrahimović's glitzy unveiling the previous summer) and plans for a triumphant trophy presentation at the Hôtel de Ville were shelved.

Spanish police say a riot officer died of cardiac arrest Thursday after clashes in Bilbao between soccer fans before a Europa League match.

There is a riot police segregation in the middle of that tier but it's Cologne fans either side of it.

We now have the comical sight of riot police separating Cologne fans.

Plastic bottles, seats and coins were thrown during the match at West Ham's London Stadium, formerly the London Olympic stadium, as hundreds of supporters clashed and riot police entered the concourse.

Will we be watching police in riot gear, driving militarized vehicles — essentially tormenting citizens of Ferguson and those who have come to support and exercise their right to peacefully protest?

There is still considerable criticism of the police response to the riots» early stages in Westminster and Met representatives are likely to get a hard time during the session.

The Mayor promoted the success of conservative values on the anniversary of last year's riots, which spread all over the country after the police shot Mark Duggan in Tottenham.

Police had been ordered to conduct riot drills ahead of the ruling.

In a sign of increasingly hostile relations between senior politicians and the police, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) broke ranks to condemn Mr Cameron and Theresa May's response to the riots as «irrelevant&rpolice, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) broke ranks to condemn Mr Cameron and Theresa May's response to the riots as «irrelevant&rPolice Officers (Acpo) broke ranks to condemn Mr Cameron and Theresa May's response to the riots as «irrelevant».

Ministers who returned from their holiday to attend the emergency Cobra meeting are understood to have been livid about the police's failure to secure the streets on Monday night, when whole swathes of London fell into the control of rioting mobs.

In recent weeks, following the riots which began in London and spread across the country, we have heard children described as «feral», «out of control» and a «drain on police time and our penal resources».

When situations have grown tense, the massed ranks of riot police grow and await the slightest reason to employ force, unleashing batons on fans who might well just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Instead of backing down today, Ms May announced new guidance on riot outbreaks and defended government plans for police reform.

The Flatbush Shomrim, founded in 1991 in the immediate wake of the Crown Heights riots, is staffed primarily by Orthodox Jewish men (typically «married or divorced») who patrol the neighborhood and ostensibly serve strictly as the «eyes and ears» for the police.